{"id":7731,"date":"2018-12-19T22:58:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T22:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionhealth.weareiceberg.co\/?p=636"},"modified":"2023-03-15T21:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:00:51","slug":"what-is-the-blue-button-2-0-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionhealth.com\/uk\/blog\/what-is-the-blue-button-2-0-api\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Blue Button 2.0 API?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Blue Button 2.0<\/a> is an API from the Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS<\/a>) that incorporates data for 53 million beneficiaries. It contains four years of data that reveals information about the health of each individual, including the Medicare plan they are on right through to the primary care and medicines they receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is an initiative in the U.S. to link claims data from Medicare and make this available to the consumers \u2013 i.e. the people who the claim was about. The Blue Button 2.0 API uses the HL7\u00ae FHIR\u00ae standard<\/a> as the format and OAuth 2.0 standard<\/a> and SMART<\/a> as the authorisation mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Developers can integrate with the Blue Button 2.0 API which will help individual patients and healthcare organisations to access and monitor health information in one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s look at how to connect to the Blue Button 2.0 API using the SMART client that we discussed in a previous blog<\/a>. There are 2 things we need to do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this blog, we\u2019ll only concern ourselves with registering the app, as there are test logins available. The first thing we need to do is to create a developer account on the BB2 sandbox here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you have an account, you\u2019ll need to register your application. There\u2019s a button on the site and you\u2019ll need to supply the following details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can ignore the other fields then check the agreement to the service agreement and save. Once you\u2019ve done that, you get a number of elements provided, of which you\u2019re going to need a couple in particular:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you\u2019re ready to load these details into the SMART client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Load the client, click the \u2018Edit Server list\u2019 to the upper right and then click \u2018Add\u2019 above the list of servers to add a new one. Here\u2019s the screen you\u2019ll get:<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow to connect to the Blue Button 2.0 API<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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